Inside the Mind

When Diane is feeling too much emotion she often draws it out. Sometimes she shares with me, sometimes she doesn't. She has an artists book that is her 'diary'. When most of us think of diaries we think of pages filled with words, Dianes diary is pages filled with pictures. These pictures always tell a story, sometimes she tells the story to me as she is drawing it. Sometimes she shows it to me after it's complete. Today she used her little whiteboard to draw out her feelings.

Here we see all the 'people inside her brain'. Everybody is yelling different ideas of what she should be doing. Eventually it all becomes too much for her to handle and she yells out in frustration, then falls to the ground.

I'm pretty sure that this is an accurate depiction of what goes on in there. She is always so 'busy' and has been since she was a baby. There are so many thoughts and ideas racing around that sometimes she just doesn't know which way is up.

One thing I've learned so far, is that Dyslexics often see their ideas as reality. So when Leonardo Di Vinci drew out the picture of a helicopter (long before it's invention), he 'saw' it in real time and space and from every angle. So the child that daydreams or is spaced out, is really seeing something so amazing in their mind, that nothing in our present reality can capture their attention.